Word: fasters
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...flight attendants on American Airlines in first class, and I appreciate their ... experience," says an American satellite-communications consultant who frequents several international airlines. But he prefers the eye candy on SIA. "It's much more fun hanging around 22-year-old girls. It makes those long flights go faster...
That sounds reasonable, like most of what Vasella says. But consider what happened two summers ago, after the Greenpeace protesters unplugged their stereo and took the helicopter home. "I got the impression that after this talk, things moved faster," says Stefan Weber, who had breakfast with Vasella that morning. It's telling, however, that the problem has not yet been solved. There are apparently too many technical difficulties--and too many other companies involved. --With reporting by Odette Frey/Zurich
...during her successful high school career: for the first time, she was playing in a league where she didn’t tower over the competition.“In college, I didn’t have that height advantage, so I had to get better at defense, get faster, get quicker,” she admits. I had to do all the things I was coasting through in high school.”“I always think it’s more difficult for any basketball player—male or female—when you?...
...departure from that of former head coach Frank Sullivan—which incorporates a more-up-and-down, fast-paced, “high-octane” brand of basketball. “We want to play a style...where we move up and down the floor a little faster, have more possessions,” Amaker says. “I think kids like to play that way—I know I used to like to play that way—and I would like to think that players you are trying to recruit would want...
...matured at age 7 1/2. The lag was most obvious in the prefrontal cortex, the study found, the area of the brain critical to cognitive functions like memory, attention focusing, higher-order motor control and the ability to suppress inappropriate responses and thoughts. One region, however, appeared to develop faster in the ADHD brain: the primary motor cortex. Combined with the delay in higher-order motor control, researchers theorize, it could explain why kids with ADHD are so fidgety and restless...